Robinson joins PwC as UK economist

By

Peter Wilson-Smith

November 1, 1999 5:00 p.m. GMT

Bill Robinson, the former director of London Economics, is joining PricewaterhouseCoopers as head UK business economist for financial advisory servicers. Robinson, a former special adviser to Chancellor Norman Lamont, left London Economics in the summer and has just completed a spell of gardening leave.

At PwC he will be tackling microeconomic issues while Rosemary Radcliffe, chief economist, concentrates on macro subjects such as interest rates and EMU. Robinson was influential in pushing through the Private Finance Initiative...